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PROF. CARPENTER is evidently right, and I am glad that he has corrected my mistake in reference to the Bessemer converter,—the statement as to the Leblanc process was, I believe, correct. It would be of interest, however, if Prof. Carpenter could give the date of construction of the last new Bessemer plant erected in Great Britain for steel manufacture. If new plants are not being constructed, the view that the Bessemer process for steel is really “of historical interest only,” would not be altogether unjustified, since this process would then rank, like the hansom cab, as one of the products of the Victorian age, of which the usefulness is likely to diminish rather than to increase in the twentieth century.
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Bessemer Steel. Nature 112, 831 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112831a0
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